Iroquois

Ir·o·quois

(ĭr′ə-kwoi′)

n.pl.Iroquois(-kwoi′, -kwoiz′)

1. A member of a Native American confederacy, known as the Iroquois League or the Iroquois Confederacy, inhabiting New York State and originally composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples, known as the Five Nations. After 1722 the confederacy was joined by the Tuscaroras to form the Six Nations.

2. Any or all of the languages of the Iroquois. In both senses also called Haudenosaunee.

[French, probably of Algonquian origin.]

Ir′o·quois′ adj.

Iroquois

(ˈɪrəˌkwɔɪ; -ˌkwɔɪz)

n, pl-quois

1. (Peoples) a member of any of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly living between the Hudson River and the St Lawrence and Lake Erie. See also Five Nations, Six Nations

2. (Languages) any of the Iroquoian languages

adj

3. (Languages) of or relating to the Iroquois, their language, or their culture

4. (Peoples) of or relating to the Iroquois, their language, or their culture

Ir•o•quois

(ˈɪr əˌkwɔɪ, -ˌkwɔɪz)

n., pl. -quois.

a member of any of the American Indian peoples, orig. centered in New York, that comprise the Five Nations confederacy: surviving Iroquois live primarily in New York, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Ontario, and Quebec.

Iroquois

A native North American people originally living between the Hudson and St Lawrence rivers.

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